新州政府释出更多建地缓和购房危机

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据8月12日《The Sun-Herald》报道，在未来18个月内，新州政府将逐步推出17,000幅新建地，以缓和悉尼购房者承受高昂房产价格的危机。

这些新建地的具体位置在悉尼西南部的Mount Annan、Campbelltown附近，西北部的The Ponds以及Camden附近的Oran Park和Blacktown附近的Stanhope。





Land ahoy: buyers spy relief in fringe release

   

August 12, 2007    Source: The Sun-Herald



SYDNEY home buyers should get some relief from high housing prices, following the State Government's release of more than 17,000 new vacant lots, to go on sale over the next 18 months.

Premier Morris Iemma said yesterday the land will add to the 33,000 Landcom housing lots already earmarked for new housing developments in the city's south-west and north-west fringes.

"Land sales are a factor in moderating prices and improving affordability," Mr Iemma said.

The home sites are near Mount Annan and Campbelltown in the south-west and The Ponds in the north-west as well as Oran Park, near Camden and Stanhope near Blacktown.

Mr Iemma warned increases in interest rates were the major deterrent to people investing in the new home developments.

The Government has previously blamed developers for withholding large tracts of land and new properties to keep prices up.

News of the latest release comes as economists and real estate agents warned increased interest rates and a wobbly share market are likely to bite into entry-level home sales over the normally buoyant spring sales.

Craig James, chief economist with ComSec, said the combination of the rates rise with the fall on the stock market could affect home sales.

"Home buyers are going to become more conservative and looking much more closely at their finances and what they can afford," he said.

Mr James predicted that rather than spurring investment in property, share market problems could dampen the market.

"It impacts in terms of confidence," Mr James said.

Mr Iemma said he sympathised with struggling home buyers hit by interest rate rises but insisted they will be helped by the cut in some housing taxes in the last state budget.

The tax on mortgages for owner-occupiers is eliminated from September 1 and for investors from July 1, 2008. Land tax was cut from 1.7per cent to 1.6per cent.

Landcom, despite discounting land sales, is only selling about 10 properties a week and still has about 380 up for sale.

Prices for land on the Sydney fringes range from $220,000 to $330,000 and a house/land package can be up to $550,000.

But experts said the cost of housing in new developments was simply too high. Sales of new homes in NSW fell 11per cent last financial year.

Harley Dale, chief economist of the Housing Industry Association, said: "If you look at a median property in western Sydney at $350,000, there are not a lot of first home buyers who can afford to start at that level, especially when they must pay extra fees and charges."

Real Estate Institute of NSW president Cristine Castle said she expected many mid-range home buyers to be able to weather the rates rise.

"Obviously rate rises will take dollars out of young buyers' pockets," she said.

Her greatest concern was that sellers would leave the market due to concerns about the prices they might fetch, leading to a shortage of stock.

Paul Lahiff, managing director of Mortgage Choice, said he expected some initial caution from buyers but that this would soon pass.

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